British primatologist Jane Goodall entered the African wilderness at 26, without any formal scientific training or university ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...

New research has uncovered a species of hook-toothed lizard that lived about 167 million years ago and has a confusing set of ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

This tiny track, alongside those of an older child and at least one adult, is at the heart of a remarkable discovery. For the ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...